“Lost”: Meet The Ghostbuster & Co.

Here’s your TV Freak take on the latest episode of “Lost.” Proceed accordingly:

For those of you keeping score at home, “Lost” is now 2-for-2. Another tense, captivating, well-paced episode that introduced us to four new characters with slick efficiency and provided a few more tantalizing twists.

ThoseÂ sluggish episodesÂ in the early part of Season 3 now seem like eons ago. This show definitely has its mojo back — and then some.Â But now thatÂ we’re all inÂ thrall, it’s starting to dawn on me: Eight (episodes) isn’t enough.

Thursday’s offering, “Confirmed Dead,” gives us another stunning opener: Â The carcass of Flight 815Â lies at the bottom of theÂ ocean. First we see the tail. … Check … And then we see theÂ cockpit … Um, wait a minute. Didn’t that land on the island? What’s going on here? Obviously, aÂ monumental coverup.

Someone has dumped a plane in the sea and convinced the world thatÂ it was Flight 815 and that allÂ 324 passengers perished. Very, very trippy.

And then we meet the so-called “rescue” party — a physicistÂ (Jeremy Davies), an anthropologist (Rebecca Mader),Â a hairy helicopter pilot (Jeff Fahey) and a loose-cannon ghostbuster guy with a Dirt Devil-like gizmo (Ken Leung). The latter makes the biggest impression (Remember Leung as Uncle Junior’s psychotic asylum mate in “The Sopranos”?).

Turns out that rescuing our beleaguered castaways is not their “primary objective.” They really want creepy Ben, who — get this — knows their names and backgrounds. How? He has a man on their boat!

Oh, “Lost” has completely lost its mind and I’mÂ so diggingÂ it.

Now, onto some random observations:

— Love the fact that weÂ were blessed withÂ more Sawyerisms tonight. “Who you getting your orders from, Col. Kurtz?” he asks Locke. And then he drops the “Yoda” moniker on Ben, andÂ later wonders: “Who are we to argue with Taller Ghost Walt?”

— Did you notice how stunned Locke looked when Hurley referred to Jacob’s haunted shack? Wanna bet that ghostbuster guy eventually goes there to commune with the dead?Â Â

— Polar bears in the desert? Apparently, Dharma has been busy elsewhere.

Â — I never thought we’d see Vincent before seeing Michael this season.

— Sawyer, again, with this eerie foreshadowing as he warns Locke about Ben: “It’s only a matter of time before he gets us, Johnny, and I bet he’s already figured out how he’s going to do it.”Â

Â — How many times is Ben going to get pummeled this year? He’s starting to look like a piece of freezer meat in “Rocky.”